Will google let me do this
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Hi i am working on my site at the moment www.in2town.co.uk and i am adding new sections and was thinking about buying domain names that best describe that section and which people would remember.
so for example i am looking at adding a tenerife magazine to my site and would like to know if it would be wise to buy a domain name for example tenerife magazine and then have it directed to the section of my site.
would this benefit my site in any way and would google allow this. instead of having in2town.co.uk and then tenerife magazine after it, sorry cannot find the slash as i am on a spanish keyborad at the moment, i would like to have something like tenerifemagazine.co..uk etc
If anyone can give me advice on this then that would be great.
also can anyone let me know if this is a wise idea or not, to have sub domain names on my main site. i would like to know if i had tenerifemagazine under the in2town domain name would it slow the site down or should i consider building a brand new site just for that and then making people aware that it comes under the in2town umbrella
many thanks
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Yes, wise. Go for it.
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Lol, it does indeed, a popular one
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Yes, absolutely, that's the way to go.
Will also help to have a short, consistent, user-friendly URL structure moving forwards as you develop the website.
Thank you for the good answer approval btw
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This question seems to be popping up a lot today on the forums lol.
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Thanks Kyle, glad you agree
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thanks everyone, so everyone is agreed, it would be best to have in2town and then tenerife after it in2town.co.uk/tenerife
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Diane, i fully agree with Simon on this one. Focus on your user first and stick to one domain if possible.
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Hi Diane
- Purchasing new domain names and redirecting them to the main website - this will have zero SEO benefit. A reason for doing this would be to provide an easy to remember web address to people, as you mentioned, or to prevent others from purchasing the domains.
in2town.co.uk/tenerife isn't that hard to remember anyway, or even better, in2town.co.uk with great navigation so that the Tenerife section is quickly and easily found.
- Sub domains could be an option (each one is essentially a seperate website, so needs its own SEO, inbound links... so something like tenerife.in2town.co.uk could be the Tenerife section. Or alternatively, in2town.co.uk/tenerife or in2town.co.uk/tenerife-magazine where you would not be diluting inbound links across multiple subdomains, they would all be benefiting the one main website. Moderate Internal Linking is worth consideration for which ever option you end up going for.
Whatever you end up choosing, my advice is to put Usability first, SEO can be catered for with all the above options, though probably more effectively with the one main website and a good URL structure.
Hope that helps,
Regards
Simon
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